Without all the so-called Catholic bashing, this priest, just like any other lay minister, youth group leader, leader of young adults or children, accused and convicted of molestation, is disqualified from any contact with them. PERIOD. Forget the deals, he is a sex offender and that is all that is needed to be known. Priest or otherwise!

This “priest” has violated a Legal Agreement and should be arrested just like anybody else. The Catholic Church continues to cover up these violations, and still remains baffled as to why so many people no longer attend church. I’ll always believe in God, but I stopped believing in the Catholic Church a long time ago. IF these priests get to Heaven, they’re going to have a lot of explaining to do.

I just read all the links to previous articles on this and can only conclude that Bishop Myers is either extremely daft or evil. He is either too dumb to realize that police/prosecutors are better are interrogating suspects than he is, and that Fugee's confession to the police is more valid than what Fugee told him afterward, or he's evil in that he's pretending that he believes Fugee was innocent.

Even though the percentage of Catholic priests is only one percent of those commit these crimes.....it is a monstrous felony, a blasphemy beyond words......and as Jesus said, they would be better to have a millstone tied around their necks and thrown into the sea if they even scandalized one these little ones......The Bishop and the Priest should lose their faculties as ministers of the Church.

This is extremely disturbing. The bishops just keep breaking their own rules that they proclaimed over ten years ago in the child protection policy. So let's hope that anyone who may have knowledge or may have been harmed by Michael Fugee, will find the courage and strength to come forward and contact law enforcement, not the church officials, no matter how long ago your abuse happened. This man needs to be kept far away from kids. Keep in mind your silence only hurts, and by speaking up there is a chance for healing, exposing the truth, and therefore protecting others. Judy Jones, SNAP "Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests" 636-433-2511, snapjudy@gmail.com

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